Robert Blackwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 1012420 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Blackwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Blackwood |
| SIGNATURE | BLACKWOOD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0592-1434 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Never seen Chinese people and Korean people try to learn each other’s language so hard”
Although transnational digital platforms are often associated with global connectivity, they also provide powerful arenas for the interactional production of nationalism. This article examines how digital nationalism is enacted through multilingual practices in transnational online conflict. It analyzes comments on two YouTube videos by Chinese influencer Li Ziqi, whose pickle-making content sparked a Sino-Korean dispute over the origin and owner…
Introduction to the tenth anniversary Special Issue of Linguistic Landscape
Countering linguistic violence by place-making in the public space
Much is discussed in the literature about the Arabization of Algeria’s public space since its independence from France in 1962. This privileging of the contest between Arabic and French eclipses the stake claimed by speakers of Tamazight, the Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the majority in the historic province of Kabylia, to the east of the capital Algiers. Taking the wilaya of Tizi-Ouzou, in the heart of Kabylia, as the focus for this article, …
Chestnut beer, Corsica-Cola, and wine bottles
Within sociolinguistics, work on the commodification of language has gathered pace in recent decades. Monica Heller, in "Globalisation, the new economy, and the commodification of language and identity", published in 2003 in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, contends that in the new globalized economy, language is commodified as a measurable skill, an inalienable characteristic of group members, and a marker of authenticity. Whilst the ability to …
Language, images, and Paris Orly airport on Instagram
Given the emergence of a specific trope in social network services, whereby individuals upload an image that includes a passport and/or a boarding pass to index their status as a traveller, this article explores multilingual and multimodal creativity in the construction of identity by a body of individuals who pass through Paris’ Orly airport. In particular, collecting data from the mobile photo-sharing platform Instagram permits the analysis of …
Conflict, exclusion and dissent in the linguistic landscape
This collection of essays on Linguistic Landscape (LL) research is organised around the theme of LL as a site of contestation. Divided into two parts (‘Conflict and Exclusion’ and ‘Dissent and Prot
LL explorations and methodological challenges
The methodologies employed over these first years of LL research have evolved rapidly in several different directions, although quantitative and/or qualitative approaches have guided most published scholarship thus far. The quantitative approach has come to be reduced in one particular narrative to the counting of signs, whilst qualitative research is portrayed as permitting analysis of a selection of signs from which wider conclusions can be dra…
The Top-Down Revitalization of Corsican
The Linguistic Landscape (LL) is being used creatively in different ways to examine language practices in multilingual communities, and a sister subdiscipline, semiotic landscapes, is emerging to include non-language elements to help better understand attitudes towards languages where two or more varieties are in competition. This article seeks to establish the extent to which the LL contributes to 'top-down' language revitalization, a perspectiv…
French, language policy and new media / Französisch, Sprachpolitiken und neue Medien / Le français, la politique linguistique et les nouveaux média
Im Kampf zur Verteidigung und Verbreitung des Standardfranzösischen, der schon lange vor der Französischen Revolution begann, ist das Internet zum neuen Schlachtfeld geworden. Wir wollen untersuchen, inwieweit die Neuen Medien die althergebrachten Denkweisen zur Sprachenpolitik in Frankreich herausfordern. Insbesondere gehen wir dabei der Regelung von On-line-Praktiken nach, und zwar aus vier verschiedenen Blickwinkeln. Zuerst geht es dabei um di…
Language beliefs and the polynomic model for Corsican
As part of the attempts to revitalise Corsican, a regional language of France, and to reverse the language shift to French, language activists and academics have sought to apply the model of a polynomic language to what is considered as one language, but what is, in fact, a number of different Corsicans, each with varying levels of mutual intelligibility. Polynomy for Corsican calls upon islanders to recognise these different varieties as one lan…
Trademarks in the linguistic landscape
In the last few decades, investigations into the linguistic landscape (LL) have sought to analyse written language practices as they are observable in public space. Whilst the LL analysis of language choice in given contexts has opened a host of possibilities for scientific enquiry in the field, the methodologies employed in the collection and categorisation of written signs is still controversial. This paper addresses a specific aspect of the qu…
L'Exception française? Post-war Language Policy on Corsica
This paper provides a historical account of post-war state language policy within education in France, examining in particular the position and status of Corsican, one of the country's regional heritage languages. This paper outlines the treatment of Corsican by the French State and how this language management impacted upon the language beliefs of the islanders. In turn, the islanders' language beliefs, especially those of dedicated language act…
The Gallicisation of Corsica
Corsican distanciation strategies
Article Corsican distanciation strategies: Language purification or misguided attempts to reverse the gallicisation process? was published on August 2, 2004 in the journal Multilingua (volume 23, issue 3)
Trademarks in the linguistic landscape
In the last few decades, investigations into the linguistic landscape (LL) have sought to analyse written language practices as they are observable in public space. Whilst the LL analysis of language choice in given contexts has opened a host of possibilities for scientific enquiry in the field, the methodologies employed in the collection and categorisation of written signs is still controversial. This paper addresses a specific aspect of the qu…
Language, images, and Paris Orly airport on Instagram
Given the emergence of a specific trope in social network services, whereby individuals upload an image that includes a passport and/or a boarding pass to index their status as a traveller, this article explores multilingual and multimodal creativity in the construction of identity by a body of individuals who pass through Paris’ Orly airport. In particular, collecting data from the mobile photo-sharing platform Instagram permits the analysis of …
Chestnut beer, Corsica-Cola, and wine bottles
Within sociolinguistics, work on the commodification of language has gathered pace in recent decades. Monica Heller, in "Globalisation, the new economy, and the commodification of language and identity", published in 2003 in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, contends that in the new globalized economy, language is commodified as a measurable skill, an inalienable characteristic of group members, and a marker of authenticity. Whilst the ability to …
Conflict, exclusion and dissent in the linguistic landscape
This collection of essays on Linguistic Landscape (LL) research is organised around the theme of LL as a site of contestation. Divided into two parts (‘Conflict and Exclusion’ and ‘Dissent and Prot
The Top-Down Revitalization of Corsican
The Linguistic Landscape (LL) is being used creatively in different ways to examine language practices in multilingual communities, and a sister subdiscipline, semiotic landscapes, is emerging to include non-language elements to help better understand attitudes towards languages where two or more varieties are in competition. This article seeks to establish the extent to which the LL contributes to 'top-down' language revitalization, a perspectiv…
The Gallicisation of Corsica
The Gallicisation of Corsica
Corsican distanciation strategies
Article Corsican distanciation strategies: Language purification or misguided attempts to reverse the gallicisation process? was published on August 2, 2004 in the journal Multilingua (volume 23, issue 3)
L'Exception française? Post-war Language Policy on Corsica
This paper provides a historical account of post-war state language policy within education in France, examining in particular the position and status of Corsican, one of the country's regional heritage languages. This paper outlines the treatment of Corsican by the French State and how this language management impacted upon the language beliefs of the islanders. In turn, the islanders' language beliefs, especially those of dedicated language act…
Trademarks in the linguistic landscape
In the last few decades, investigations into the linguistic landscape (LL) have sought to analyse written language practices as they are observable in public space. Whilst the LL analysis of language choice in given contexts has opened a host of possibilities for scientific enquiry in the field, the methodologies employed in the collection and categorisation of written signs is still controversial. This paper addresses a specific aspect of the qu…
Language beliefs and the polynomic model for Corsican
As part of the attempts to revitalise Corsican, a regional language of France, and to reverse the language shift to French, language activists and academics have sought to apply the model of a polynomic language to what is considered as one language, but what is, in fact, a number of different Corsicans, each with varying levels of mutual intelligibility. Polynomy for Corsican calls upon islanders to recognise these different varieties as one lan…
French, language policy and new media / Französisch, Sprachpolitiken und neue Medien / Le français, la politique linguistique et les nouveaux média
Im Kampf zur Verteidigung und Verbreitung des Standardfranzösischen, der schon lange vor der Französischen Revolution begann, ist das Internet zum neuen Schlachtfeld geworden. Wir wollen untersuchen, inwieweit die Neuen Medien die althergebrachten Denkweisen zur Sprachenpolitik in Frankreich herausfordern. Insbesondere gehen wir dabei der Regelung von On-line-Praktiken nach, und zwar aus vier verschiedenen Blickwinkeln. Zuerst geht es dabei um di…
The Top-Down Revitalization of Corsican
The Linguistic Landscape (LL) is being used creatively in different ways to examine language practices in multilingual communities, and a sister subdiscipline, semiotic landscapes, is emerging to include non-language elements to help better understand attitudes towards languages where two or more varieties are in competition. This article seeks to establish the extent to which the LL contributes to 'top-down' language revitalization, a perspectiv…
LL explorations and methodological challenges
The methodologies employed over these first years of LL research have evolved rapidly in several different directions, although quantitative and/or qualitative approaches have guided most published scholarship thus far. The quantitative approach has come to be reduced in one particular narrative to the counting of signs, whilst qualitative research is portrayed as permitting analysis of a selection of signs from which wider conclusions can be dra…
Conflict, exclusion and dissent in the linguistic landscape
This collection of essays on Linguistic Landscape (LL) research is organised around the theme of LL as a site of contestation. Divided into two parts (‘Conflict and Exclusion’ and ‘Dissent and Prot
Language, images, and Paris Orly airport on Instagram
Given the emergence of a specific trope in social network services, whereby individuals upload an image that includes a passport and/or a boarding pass to index their status as a traveller, this article explores multilingual and multimodal creativity in the construction of identity by a body of individuals who pass through Paris’ Orly airport. In particular, collecting data from the mobile photo-sharing platform Instagram permits the analysis of …
Chestnut beer, Corsica-Cola, and wine bottles
Within sociolinguistics, work on the commodification of language has gathered pace in recent decades. Monica Heller, in "Globalisation, the new economy, and the commodification of language and identity", published in 2003 in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, contends that in the new globalized economy, language is commodified as a measurable skill, an inalienable characteristic of group members, and a marker of authenticity. Whilst the ability to …
Countering linguistic violence by place-making in the public space
Much is discussed in the literature about the Arabization of Algeria’s public space since its independence from France in 1962. This privileging of the contest between Arabic and French eclipses the stake claimed by speakers of Tamazight, the Afro-Asiatic language spoken by the majority in the historic province of Kabylia, to the east of the capital Algiers. Taking the wilaya of Tizi-Ouzou, in the heart of Kabylia, as the focus for this article, …
Introduction to the tenth anniversary Special Issue of Linguistic Landscape
“Never seen Chinese people and Korean people try to learn each other’s language so hard”
Although transnational digital platforms are often associated with global connectivity, they also provide powerful arenas for the interactional production of nationalism. This article examines how digital nationalism is enacted through multilingual practices in transnational online conflict. It analyzes comments on two YouTube videos by Chinese influencer Li Ziqi, whose pickle-making content sparked a Sino-Korean dispute over the origin and owner…
Linguistics (11 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Corsican (6 works) · Linguistic landscape (5 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geography (4 works)